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Nuclear Weapons Council by Joseph W. Kirschbaum,David C. Trimble Pdf
The Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Dept. of Energy's (DOE's) National Nuclear Security Admin. (NNSA) are jointly responsible for managing aspects of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Nuclear Weapons Council (Council), established by Congress in 1986, includes five senior officials from both departments; it facilitates coordination between DOD and NNSA and establishes program priorities. DOD and NNSA are working to modernize the nuclear enterprise, including delivery systems and nuclear weapons, and they project that this work will cost about $332 billion through 2025. This report addresses (1) how the Council carries out its statutory and regulatory responsibilities and any challenges it faces in doing so; and (2) the extent to which the Council's actions are consistent with key practices for interagency collaboration. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
The Nat. Nuclear Security Admin. (NNSA) is responsible for pit manufacturing (PM), a key component in a nuclear warhead. It lost its ability to PM in 1989 with the closing of the Rocky Flats Plant. In 1996, the Los Alamos Nat. Lab. was directed to reestablish a PM capability, starting with a limited number of pits for the W88 warhead. In recent years, NNSA has considered ways to increase its PM capacity, incl. building a new, large-scale PM facility. It has also proposed producing pits for the Reliable Replacement Warhead. This report determines the: (1) extent to which NNSA achieved its major goals for reestablishing its PM capability; (2) factors that currently constrain its ability to increase its PM capacity; and (3) status of its plans for future PM. Tables.
National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office of International Affairs
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office of International Affairs Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 63 pages File Size : 40,7 Mb Release : 1999-08-09 Category : Technology & Engineering ISBN : 9780309184496
Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office of International Affairs Pdf
The management challenge in orchestrating a multitude of DOE headquarters, laboratory, and contractor personnel at about 50 sites in Russia is daunting. Steps are needed to maximize the return on U.S. expenditures, to reduce redundancy while ensuring adequate oversight, and to provide additional work incentives that will attract highly qualified specialists from the United States and Russia to participate in the protection, control, and accountability of direct-use material (MPC&A) program. This report contains many recommendations to address these and related issues.
National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 30 pages File Size : 50,8 Mb Release : 2011-04-07 Category : Technology & Engineering ISBN : 9780309208871
Understanding and Managing Risk in Security Systems for the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Pdf
A nuclear weapon or a significant quantity of special nuclear material (SNM) would be of great value to a terrorist or other adversary. It might have particular value if acquired from a U.S. facility-in addition to acquiring a highly destructive tool, the adversary would demonstrate an inability of the United States to protect its nuclear assets. The United States expends considerable resources toward maintaining effective security at facilities that house its nuclear assets. However, particularly in a budget-constrained environment, it is essential that these assets are also secured efficiently, meaning at reasonable cost and imposing minimal burdens on the primary missions of the organizations that operate U.S. nuclear facilities. It is in this context that the U.S. Congress directed the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-a semi-autonomous agency in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for securing nuclear weapons and significant quantities of SNM-asked the National Academies for advice on augmenting its security approach, particularly on the applicability of quantitative and other risk-based approaches for securing its facilities. In carrying out its charge, the committee has focused on what actions NNSA could take to make its security approach more effective and efficient. The committee concluded that the solution to balancing cost, security, and operations at facilities in the nuclear weapons complex is not to assess security risks more quantitatively or more precisely. This is primarily because there is no comprehensive analytical basis for defining the attack strategies that a malicious, creative, and deliberate adversary might employ or the probabilities associated with them. However, using structured thinking processes and techniques to characterize security risk could improve NNSA's understanding of security vulnerabilities and guide more effective resource allocation.
U.S. nuclear weapons are aging, with key components reaching the end of their service life. In September 2008, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Nuclear Security Admin. (NNSA) began a study of military requirements and design options for extending the B61 bomb¿s service life. The B61 supports the U.S. strategic deterrent and NATO. This report assessed the extent to which DoD and NNSA have: (1) considered the time available to begin producing refurbished bombs when determining the scope of the study; and (2) taken actions to avoid operational gaps in U.S. nuclear weapons commitments to NATO during the life extension program. Includes recommend. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on the Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on the Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 93 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 2009-03-02 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780309178464
Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on the Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile Pdf
Maintaining the capabilities of the nuclear weapons stockpile and performing the annual assessment for the stockpile's certification involves a wide range of processes, technologies, and expertise. An important and valuable framework helping to link those components is the quantification of margins and uncertainties (QMU) methodology. In this book, the National Research Council evaluates: how the national security labs were using QMU, including any significant differences among the three labs its use in the annual assessment whether the applications of QMU to assess the proposed reliable replacement warhead (RRW) could reduce the likelihood of resuming underground nuclear testing This book presents an assessment of each of these issues and includes findings and recommendations to help guide laboratory and NNSA implementation and development of the QMU framework. It also serves as a guide for congressional oversight of those activities.
National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 159 pages File Size : 41,8 Mb Release : 1997-04-15 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780309174817
Proliferation Concerns by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control Pdf
The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities and technologies. Preventing the flow of such items to countries of proliferation concern and to terrorist groups is a major objective of U.S. national security policy. This book reviews the effectiveness of two U.S. programs directed to this objective. These programs have supported the efforts of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakstan in upgrading the physical protection, control, and accountability of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and strengthening systems to control the export of many types of militarily sensitive items.
As a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) administers the Stockpile Life Extension Program, whose purpose is to extend, through refurbishment, the operational lives of the weapons in the nuclear stockpile. NNSA encountered significant management problems with its first refurbishment for the W87 warhead. This report assesses the extent to which NNSA and the DoD have effectively managed the refurbishment of two other weapons -- the B61 bomb and the W76 warhead. This report summarizes the findings of a classified report on the refurbishment of the B61 bomb and W76 warhead. Includes recommendations. Illustrations.
Reliable Replacement Warhead Program by Jonathan Medalia Pdf
Most current U.S. nuclear warheads were built in the 1970s and 1980s and are being retained longer than was planned. Yet they deteriorate and must be maintained. To correct problems, a Life Extension Program (LEP) replaces components. Modifying some components would require a nuclear test, but the U.S. has observed a test moratorium since 1992. The NNSA and the DoE, would develop the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). Contents of this report (1) Need to Maintain Nuclear Warheads for the Long Term; The Solution So Far: Is LEP Satisfactory for the Long Term?; RRW and the Transformation of Nuclear Warheads; (2) RRW Program Developments; (3) Congressional Action; (4) Chronology, 2007-. A print on demand report.
William James Perry,Brent Scowcroft,Charles D. Ferguson
Author : William James Perry,Brent Scowcroft,Charles D. Ferguson Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Page : 149 pages File Size : 43,6 Mb Release : 2009 Category : History ISBN : 9780876094204
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy by William James Perry,Brent Scowcroft,Charles D. Ferguson Pdf
The report notes that in the near term nuclear weapons will remain a fundamental element of U.S. national security. For this reason it emphasizes the importance of maintaining a safe, secure, and reliable deterrent nuclear force and makes recommendations on this front. The report also offers measures to advance important goals such as preventing nuclear terrorism and bolstering the nuclear nonproliferation regime--Foreword.
Russian Academy of Sciences,National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities
Author : Russian Academy of Sciences,National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 118 pages File Size : 55,6 Mb Release : 2006-02-22 Category : Political Science ISBN : 0309181496
Strengthening Long-Term Nuclear Security by Russian Academy of Sciences,National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities Pdf
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security: Protecting Weapon-Usable Material in Russia. The report highlighted several obstacles in the transition from a U.S.-Russian cooperative program to a Russian-directed and Russian-funded fully indigenized program that will ensure the security of 600 tons of weapon-usable nuclear material at a level of international acceptability. Overcoming these obstacles requires an increased political commitment at a number of levels of the Russian Government to modern material protection, control, and accounting systems (MPC&A). Adequate resources must be provided to facilities where weapon-usable material is located for upgrading and maintaining MPC&A systems. Additionally, the technical security systems that are being installed through the cooperative program need to be fully embraced by Russian managers and specialists. The report recommends the establishment of a ten-year indigenization fund of about $500 million provided by Russia and its G-8 partners as a new mechanism for gradually shifting the financial burden of MPC&A to the Russian Government.
National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 266 pages File Size : 43,5 Mb Release : 2005-04-15 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780309181211
Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control Pdf
In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weaponsâ€"strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployedâ€"plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.
